Houston TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2012 - With all of the excitement of the Mars Curiosity landing, many are looking to move from robots to humans for exploration beyond Earth's orbit. Keeping in mind the Seven Minutes of Terror, just imagi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2012 - Opportunity is conducting a local area survey around the location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission. The rover's Chemistry and Mine
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 18, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover has swallowed its first scoopful of dirt from the Red Planet's surface - and found some bright-colored objects that experts briefly thought might be man-made, the US space agency said Thursday.
Reno NV (SPX) Oct 17, 2012 - An astronomy graduate student at New Mexico State University spoke Tuesday about her research studying the possible detection of methane gas on Mars at a presentation during the American Astronomica
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 16, 2012 - Commands will be sent to Curiosity instructing the rover to collect a third scoop of soil from the Rocknest site of windblown Martian sand and dust. Pending evaluation of this Sol 69 (Oct. 1
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2012 - On Sol 65 (Oct. 11, 2012) of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed several activities in preparation for collecting its second scoop of soil. Like the firs
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2012 - Opportunity is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign at a location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour C
Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Oct 12, 2012 - A meteorite that landed in the Moroccan desert 14 months ago is providing more information about Mars, the planet where it originated. University of Alberta researcher Chris Herd helped in the study
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 12, 2012 - The first Martian rock NASA's Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions. The rock also resembles some unusual rocks from Earth'
Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2012 - A rock analyzed by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has a surprising and more varied composition that resembles rare rocks from the bowels of our planet, the US space agency said Thursday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 11, 2012 - The team operating Curiosity decided on Oct. 9, 2012, to proceed with using the rover's first scoop of Martian material. Plans for Sol 64 (Oct. 10) call for shifting the scoopful of sand and d
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2012 - Curiosity's first scooping activity appeared to go well on Oct. 7. Subsequently, the rover team decided to refrain from using the rover's robotic arm on Oct. 8 due to the detection of a bright
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2012 - On the mission's 61st Martian day, or sol (Oct. 7, 2012),NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its soil scoop for the first time, collecting a scoopful of sand and powdery material at the Rocknest site
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2012 - Curiosity's main activity in the 62nd sol of the mission (Oct. 8, 2012) was to image a small, bright object on the ground using the Remote Micro-Imager of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrume
Beijing (AFP) Oct 10, 2012 - China is planning to collect samples from the surface of Mars by 2030, according to the chief scientist of the country's lunar orbiter project, state media reported Wednesday.
